Author Jeffrey Haas Discusses Death of Fred Hampton

Author Jeffrey Haas (center) enjoys conversation at The John Marshall Law School with Michael Schlesinger (left), director of the Business Transactions Externship Program, and Associate Dean Rory Smith (right), director of the Office of Diversity Affairs, before Haas presented his Feb. 16 program on his book “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther.” Hampton was deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969 when he was shot dead in his apartment in a raid conducted by a tactical unit of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the FBI.

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